Contents

Goals

The primary goal of 2006.0 is to improve the quality of the Gentoo release media by including more drivers. We are also looking to improve the quality of the build over the last release, which is a recurring goal with every release.

Information

Release resources

Release notes:

Alpha release notes

AMD64 release notes

HPPA release notes

IA-64 release notes

PPC release notes

PPC64 release notes

SPARC release notes

x86 release notes

There will be md5sums for all release media on the Gentoo mirrors.

All release media will be signed by the Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (releng@gentoo.org) PGP key. The public key ID is 0x17072058, and the key is available through the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver.

Contacts and schedule

Contacts:

Release Operations, PR: Tim Yamin

Documentation: Shyam Mani

Infrastructure: Jeff Forman

Schedule:

Milestone

Description

Status

Build tools QA

The release building tools are feature-frozen and are QA checked for proper building on each architecture that plans on releasing.

Completed

QA testing

Release components have been thoroughly tested in accordance with the QA guidelines. At least one test release has been made by this time by each architecture.

Completed

Official snapshot

The official portage freeze is completed. From this point forward, only bug/security fixes are introduced into the release tree that affect the release media.

Completed

Final QA

After the successful build of the release materials, a final "once over" is given to each piece of the release materials to test functionality and correctness.

Completed

Release upload

All release components are uploaded to the official release staging area on the Release Engineering AMD64 box for signing and MD5/SHA1 verification.

Completed

PR written

All PR items, including release notes for each architecture, are completed. Release notes are committed to CVS, and the PR items are prepared.

Completed

Release handover

Release Engineering makes one final check of all materials, then hands it over to Infrastructure for staging and release.

Completed

Mirrors are staged

Infrastructure stages the mirrors and prepares PR items for final commit.

Completed

2006.0 release

Infrastructure performs the final commit on PR items and makes the release materials live. 2006.0 is publicly released.

Completed

Architectures releasing

The following supported architectures are tentatively releasing 2006.0:

Architecture

Subarch(es)

Expected components for 2006.0

Release coordinator(s)

alpha

alpha

InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes

kloeri, agriffis

amd64

amd64

InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes

kugelfang

hppa

hppa1.1, hppa2.0

InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes

dertobi123

ppc

G4, ppc

InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes

pylon

ppc64

ppc64, G5, power3, power4, power5

InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes

ranger, dostrow

sparc

sparc32, sparc64

InstallCDs, stages, GRP, release notes

gustavoz, weeve

x86

x86, i586, i686

InstallCD, stages, LiveCD, release notes

wolf31o2

The following unsupported architectures are tentatively releasing 2006.0:

Architecture

Subarch(es)

Expected components for 2006.0

Release coordinator(s)

arm

arm, armv4l

stages, netboot images

vapier

ia64

ia64

InstallCDs, stages, release notes

plasmaroo

mips

mips

LiveCD, stages, netboot images

Kumba

s390

s390

stages

vapier

If information regarding a specific architecture is wrong or has been omitted, please contact the release operations manager.

This page is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org. The following people contributed to the original document: Chris Gianelloni (author, December 1, 2005)They are listed here because wiki history does not allow for any external attribution. If you edit the wiki article, please do not add yourself here; your contributions are recorded on each article's associated history page.